Improvement in eye-glass suspenders



SAMUEL F. M ERRITT.

Improvement in Ey-glass Suspenders. N0, 122,629, Patentedlan.9,1872.

STATES ATEN'I FFICE.

SAMUEL F. MERRITT, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN EVE-GLASS SUSPENDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,629, dated January 9, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

I, SAMUEL F. MEERITT, of Springfield, Hampden county, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Eye-Glass Suspenders;7 of which the following is a specication:

N @ture and Objects.

. usually used to secure glasses to be entirely dispensed with. The ring of the handle ofthe glass being forced past the spring-hook rests in the loop of the holder, where it is free to move or oscillate; but as an unusually-strong jerk might detach the glass without the Wearer7s knowledge, and as it would be difficult to make a light thin vmetal suspender, the hook of which would have springenough to resist the ring of the glass acting as a wedge between it and its bearing, I punch out and form from the metallic shank, (or back of the loop,) and opposite the hook, a tongue, which, being connected at its upper end to the stock, has its lower end turned away from, andV its main length brought to bear against, the hook, so that while yielding to the passage of the glass between the hook and itself, it springs back against the hook and permits the ring of the glass following the back of the loop to come against the angle of its departure from the shank and where the metal is solid, thus fornr ing an effectual guard. against any escape of the glass, while, by the slight turn given to its free end, the glass can be Withdrawn between it and the hook, at will.

In the drawing, Figure I is a perspective view, and Fig. II a 'prole view of my invention.

General Description.

A is the bar, extending upon both sides of the suspender, at its top, for the purpose of holding it more steadily in position. D is the attachment-pin, hinged at c to the back of the bar, and having its point received within the catch b. L is the spring-hook, closed against the back or shank H of the suspender 5 and I is the spring-tongue or guard, bearing against the hook and retaining the glass so securely within the loop of the holder that the ring of the glass itself will break before it can escape;

and by these means I am able to make a thin y light metallic holder that shall have all required strength.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the shank or back H, spring-hook L, bar A, and pin D, the springtongue or guard I, constructed and arranged substantially as hereinbefore specilied.

SAMUEL F. MERRITT.

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